Publications
My academic work focuses on both clinical and research conceptualization as well as assessment of creative processes in the context of the patient-therapist relationship in two modalities: individual therapy, and mother-child and father-child dyadic therapy. I have been presenting my research and my clinical knowledge in academic seminars in Israel and abroad and in the last two years also presenting at internationals conferences, workshops and academic forums.
My academic work is interdisciplinary, integrating different fields of research, such as bibliotherapy, psychotherapy, motherhood, literature, gender, internet studies and qualitative research. My publications focus on clinical work in the field of bibliotherpy and parent-child dyadic therapy. My theoretical and clinical thinking integrates Relational Psychoanalysis.
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences and Presentations
International Conferences - Held in Israel
“Rememory” and Meaning: The Narrative of a Mother Giving Birth to Her Own Subjective Identity. Tel Aviv. Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. June, 2009
Narrators of Maternal Subjectivity: Between Maternal Self-Narratives and Maternal Child-Focused Narratives, Jerusalem. The 47th Annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. June 2016
Our Capacity to Narrate and Love in the virtual sphere. Tel Aviv. International Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. June 2019
Israeli Conferences
Expressions of Catharsis in Adolescent Diaries Tel Aviv Second Interdisciplinary Conference for Qualitative Methodologies June, 2006
The Research’s Umbilical Cord Ben-Gurion University Third Interdisciplinary Conference for Qualitative Methodologies February, 2008
A Blog of Your Own: Maternal Narrative and its Expressions in Israeli Mothers’ Blogs Bar-Ilan University Second Conference of Gender and Discourse February, 2009
Identity, Memory, and Meaning in Writing Processes in Mothers’ Blogs University of Haifa Brain, Art, and Therapy December, 2009
Invited Lectures in Israel
Mothers Writing Themselves? Witnessing and Playing in Mothers’ Writing, University of Haifa, Echoes and Witnessing: Voices in Bibliotherapy,2012
Bibliotherapy and the Capacity to Narrate, Ministry of Education, Experienced Expressive Therapist in Matya Kfar Saba,2016
Maternal Subjectivity and Babies' Contributions, Minstery of Health Office, Haifa. Clinical Seminar, The Public Service Center for Developmental Psychological Therapy,2017
The Capacity to love, The Capacity to Narrate: Filling the Holes in the Heart, University of Haifa, 2018
Love in the Life Span: Department of Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa,2018
Bibliotherapy and the Education Field, Seminar Ha'Kibutsim College, Literature Education Seminar,2018
Our Human Capacities: Creating a research and Clinical community in Israel and Germany, Seminar Ha'Kibutsim College, International Seminar about Activist Education,2019
How to fall down perfectly: A case study of a child with behavioral difficulties. Levinsky College, Mahut Research Center annual conference, 2019.
International Conferences - Held Abroad
Chair and Presenter, The Paradoxes in the Research of Mothers’ Blogs – The Need for a Playful. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry May, 2013
The Capacity to Narrate Maternal Subjectivity in the Context of Early Motherhood. Prague. The 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health June, 2016
The 'Times They are Changing’: Maternal Identity Between Risks and Resilience. Rome. 16th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health May, 2018
Where the Wild Narratives of Motherhood Are. Amsterdam, The 48th Annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research June, 2018
Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Panel: Infant Mental Health, Prague, The 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2016
Panel: Infant Mental Health, Rome,16th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2018
Panel: The Question of Education after Auschwitz, Haifa, Social Work and Bibliotherapy: Germany-Israel Annual meeting, 2017
Panel: The Witness Narrator: Working with Survivals , Haifa, Social Work and Bibliotherapy: Germany-Israel Annual meeting, 2018
Panel: Shared experience – shared memories, Germany, International Conference of Israeli-German Cooperation, 2019
Invited Workshop Abroad
Bibliotherapy and the Capacity to Narrate, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Pedagogy and Human Rights,2017
Bibliotherapy with Refugees, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Munchen, Germany, Refuge and Asylum,2017
Our Human Capacities: To Narrate and to Relate, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Academy for Political Education Tutzin, Germany, Social work as place of human rights, 2017
Narrative and Play within the therapeutic context, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Social work as place of human rights,2018
Bibliotherapy and memory, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Shared Experience – Shared Memories,2019
Colloquium Talks
Motherhood in between the Virtual and the Real: Jewish Israeli Maternal Writing from a Bibliotherapeutic Perspective, Resident fellow Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2013
The Maternal Playground under Fire, Center for Global and International Studies Seminar, University of Kansas, 2013
Decompose and Narrate: The Developmental Challenges of the Divorced Mother in Israel. Faculty of Education Seminar, University of Haifa, 2017
The Clinical Case Photo Album, Bibliotherapy program Case Study Seminar. Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, 2018
Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes
2003 Excellence Prize, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2004 Excellence Prize for MA students, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Haifa.
2006-2009 Graduate Studies Authority Fellowship, University of Haifa.
2013-2014 Research Grants, Scholarships, and Awards, University of Kansas, Rocket Research and Development, Co-researcher: Maria Velasco and Ruth Ann Atchley, Your Ideal End: A Meeting of Bibliotherapy and Art
2014-2015 American Psychological Association Psychoanalytic Division 39’s Early Career Professional Scholar Award.